brakes

[podge]

right having trouble wit the brakes on the car at the last drift pratice day they boiled and stopped working so tonight i went to bleed them started at the back left hand side and starting working my way all round
now the problem i can get the htdralic hand brake working perfect but when i go to bleed the front brakes i can get a thing from them back brakes were bleed wit the foot brake and work perfect but front brakes cant be got working at all any one got any ideas as to wat to try

[pt_y2k]

first off did ya change the fluid ya??not 100% on bleedin brakes but dont ya go diagonally??back left,front right,back right front left??and maybe try a proper bleeder,sometimes doing it with the pedal just aint good enough and run the risk of turning the seal in the master cylinder....

[thegosson]

you dont bleed them diagonaly. you bleed them from furthest away from the master cylinder first. so rear left then rear right then front left then front right.

[Dunnedriftin]

you dont bleed them diagonaly. you bleed them from furthest away from the master cylinder first. so rear left then rear right then front left then front right.

100% Right, you always bleed from the furthest away from the cylinder!

[Davie]

there is different methods but bleeding from the furthest works for me,
maybe the caliper's are seized?

[Jay Rockett]

Your bleed nipple on the caliper could be blocked.. happens over time!

Take it out completely, and put a bolt in the whole to stop all the fluid escaping then get an airline and blow into the top of the nipple.. Theres a tiny hole, very hard to see, and its usually below the threads, the opposite end to the big hole at the top basically and air should escape through that.

If it doesnt then the nipple is blocked, might have to spray brake cleaner or something similar to help free it up and get a tiny drill bit that fits inside the large hole and try clean out the nipple with that also, then keep trying to get air to flow through from the top of the nipple to the bottom where the small hole is!

[podge]

turns out the master cyclinder was fucked so fitted ne one and bleed up again but still problems
first time i took it up the road was perfect handbrake working the lot when got back noticed the brakes sticking a bit so took it up again and the brakes started to get stuck worst and worst on it and the brake pedal was solidso i changed the valcum valve on the top and it releasiied the brakes a bit but the brake pedal is still solid
any ideas

[skelly]

did ye change d master cylender or slave cylender d master is the big black one the slave is the ine the brake lines come out if

[podge]

changed the big black one at the bulk head

[skelly]

try the slave cylender it could b fooked